Roe Vs Wade Case Study

Roe v. Wade (1973) Roe v. Wade was a historic Supreme Court decision made in 1973 that changed the lives of women. It was determined by the Supreme Court that the protections of the Fourteenth Amendment, including the Due Process Clause, would apply to the rights and protections of women to decide to have an abortion. It did, however, still reserve the potential for regulation of abortions based on the protection of women’s health and the potential harm to human life. This has resulted in much debate over the years over what is considered to be “human life,” and the topic of abortion remains a contentious political issue to this day. In the early years of the United States, there were no laws pertaining to abortions. Abortions were unregulated

Wade case was argued twice in the Supreme Court, as a satisfactory conclusion was not made after the first arguments were heard. The second round of arguments on the case was heard in January of 1973. A decision was reached on January 22, 1973, with a seven-to-two majority in favor of Roe. The main point of the Supreme Court’s ruling was that the Texas law was found unconstitutional. The majority opinion was penned by Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun, and stated that a woman’s right for an abortion, like other decisions regarding marriage, personal health, and contraception, was covered in the First, Fourth, Ninth, and Fourteenth Amendments. This right to privacy had the immediate effect of legalizing abortion and striking down any previous laws banning abortion through the states. The two dissenting Supreme Court Justices were William Rehnquist and Byron White. The decision in the companion case Doe v. Bolton was that the law in the State of Georgia was unconstitutional, and that it deprived Doe of her right to privacy. However, this was a direct result of the Roe decision that they just passed in the same day. This was the first case as such to address the constitutionality of the new

There was, however, a drastic drop in the amount of complications and deaths resulting from improper and non-medically supervised abortions. Safer access to abortions became available to women everywhere, especially those of lower income, who had very limited access before the ruling. The case continues to have national significance. In the years since the ruling, it has served as the cornerstone case for any abortion cases that go to the Supreme Court. In the 1992 case Planned Parenthood v. Casey, in an only five-to-four majority, the court ruled that the abortion laws of Pennsylvania imposed an “undue burden” on obtaining an abortion for a woman. The case has also been challenged many times since the ruling, but has not been altered or overturned. The decision to this day has brought to the foreground two groups of belief, “Pro-Life” and “Pro-Choice.” Pro-Life activists started organizing right after the Roe decision was made, rallying for the decision to be overturned. To this day, activists show their convictions by holding signs outside of abortion clinics in protest. Pro-Choice activists fight to make sure that women keep their rights, as some states work to defund important programs that provide access to terminate pregnancy and provide contraception to women, and attempt to pass laws that make access to abortions more